This project's third step is to go on top of the mountain and leave there the ceramic stones created during step 2.
By giving back to the matter the place to which it belonged many years ago, I intend to refill the mountain ; to rebuild it partially, and thus set myself symbolically against its slow and unrelenting erosion.
But to put back ceramic stones on the mountain's top also restarts the rocks' cycle, in an artificial way : from erosion to sedimentation, from sedimentation to a new type of rock – or the effect of time affected by a human interference in the geological tempus, so as to reveal the mutational abilities of stones which, to us humans, tends to look static and unchanging.
'Why would it be surprising for a stone to be a food for old or young mountains ?' - Giuseppe Penone
By giving back to the matter the place to which it belonged many years ago, I intend to refill the mountain ; to rebuild it partially, and thus set myself symbolically against its slow and unrelenting erosion.
But to put back ceramic stones on the mountain's top also restarts the rocks' cycle, in an artificial way : from erosion to sedimentation, from sedimentation to a new type of rock – or the effect of time affected by a human interference in the geological tempus, so as to reveal the mutational abilities of stones which, to us humans, tends to look static and unchanging.
'Why would it be surprising for a stone to be a food for old or young mountains ?' - Giuseppe Penone
